Thea Osborne Books in Order

Visiting a church near Cirencester with her stepdaughter Stephanie, Thea runs into old friend Emmy, now married to a local farmer. Asked to help find Emmy’s missing niece, she soon stumbles across a freshly killed woman, uncovering a sinister link between the disappearance and the murder.

Thea Osborne’s latest assignment seems routine until a shocking betrayal in the small community leads to violence. As loyalties shift and neighbours turn on one another, she must decide who deserves her trust while tracing the hidden grievances that sparked the crime.

Returning to house-sitting after upheavals at home, Thea finds that a new Cotswold village carries disturbing echoes of earlier cases. When a body is discovered, familiar patterns of silence and suspicion reappear, forcing her to distinguish coincidence from a deliberate repetition of past crimes.

House-sitting over the festive season with her stepdaughter Stephanie, Thea expects little more than winter walks and family tension. A death close to their temporary home turns their Christmas into a hunt through village feuds, seasonal resentments and long-held grudges.

Thea and Drew take on another Cotswold village, expecting nothing more than everyday work and neighbourly chatter. When a sudden death exposes tangled histories, they peel back layers of gossip, half-truths and family scandals to learn whose secrets were dangerous enough to kill for.

A routine burial in Broad Campden exposes poisonous secrets, drawing Drew into a bitter family feud at his funeral business. Thea, restless in married life, is soon involved, even as another crisis threatens Drew’s other work and a charming newcomer tests the strength of their relationship.

Newly married to Drew and living in Broad Campden, Thea is trying to settle into domestic life when she discovers a neighbour’s body. Doubting the police’s swift conclusion, she risks her marriage and safety by probing deeper into local friendships, feuds and lies.

In Chedworth, Thea and her fiancé Drew are cataloguing the possessions of Rita Wilshire, recently moved into a care home. When Rita’s son is found dead in a barn, questions of suicide, inheritance and old grievances strain Thea and Drew’s relationship as they search for the truth.

In Daglingworth, Thea’s latest house-sit seems gentle, with only an elderly corgi and a hibernating tortoise to mind. A firebomb pushed through the letterbox and a body found in a quarry expose eco-activists, risky alliances and a vengeful plan that puts Thea in serious danger.

Spending Christmas house-sitting in the village of Stanton, Thea wants only quiet walks and pub meals. Her arrival coincides with a local businessman’s funeral, and when another villager is brutally murdered, she is once more at the heart of a tense police investigation.

Agreeing at short notice to house-sit in historic Winchcombe, Thea hopes for time to think about her mother’s new romance and her own feelings for Drew. Feeding wild birds near the cottage, she discovers a body in the garden and uncovers shadows from past traumas reaching into the present.

Thea’s new assignment in the cluttered Hyacinth House at Snowshill feels uneasy from the moment she arrives. After mischievous local boy Stevie is strangled outside, suspicion falls on his eccentric mother, and Thea races with Sonia Gladwin and Drew Slocombe to expose a much wider web of malice.

House-sitting a grand home in secluded Cranham, Thea expects a peaceful summer minding Harriet Young’s reptiles. Instead she meets an unsettling cast of villagers and realises the geckoes in the basement are not the only cold-blooded creatures as deception and murder surface around her.

Undertaker Drew Slocombe travels to Broad Campden for a burial, worrying more about work and home than crime. When a council worker opposing the funeral is found dead near Thea Osborne’s house-sit, Drew becomes the prime suspect and must join forces with Thea to clear his name.

Thea Osborne’s latest house-sitting job in a Cotswold hamlet promises nothing more than animal care and country walks. When a brutal killing shocks the village, she finds herself sifting through farm disputes, local gossip and simmering feuds to understand who turned to violence.

Snowbound in the tiny hamlet of Hampnett, Thea faces a lonely winter month with only animals and her spaniel for company. Strange tracks in the snow and the discovery of a dead man in a field drag her into a chilling mystery of abandoned pets, troubled children and desperate neighbours.

In Temple Guiting, Thea and detective partner Phil Hollis confront a mystery when a skeleton is uncovered under an old beech tree. Rumours of Knights Templar ancestry, village rituals and possessive families swirl as Thea learns the countryside is never as peaceful as it looks.

Staying in Blockley to look after the Montgomerys’ house and dogs, Thea Osborne is certain nothing can go wrong this time. A death next door pulls her into local legends, celebrity neighbours and quiet enmities, proving the village is far stranger than its pretty streets suggest.

House-sitter Thea Osborne hopes for quiet time with DI Phil Hollis in Cold Aston, but pagan spinner Ariadne narrates a darker tale. A body laid out on an ancient barrow at Samhain reveals how pagan rituals, village secrets and old crushes can turn lethal.

On her second house-sitting assignment, Thea Osborne stays in Frampton Mansell, minding pets and an elderly pony near an old canal. When a man apparently kills himself in a barn, Thea and DI Phil Hollis find the death tied to buried mills, debts and divided loyalties.

Newly widowed Thea Osborne takes her first house-sitting job in the pretty village of Duntisbourne Abbots, expecting only quiet walks with her spaniel. After a local farmer is murdered, she finds the supposedly idyllic community riddled with secrets, grudges and dangerous gossip.